Thursday, October 4, 2012

Nigerian top blogger is guest speaker today at the Abuja Literary Society, Transcorp Hilton Hotel


Abuja Literary Society First Fri@Hilton Open-Mic hold this Friday, 5th Oct, 6pm at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. Our 1hr Lecture Series with LimbSimple holds 6-7pm, while Open-Mic reading begins promptly at 7pm.

Come with your poetry, prose, drama and favourite writing, and let's have fun!

This month's lecture is about Social Media in Brand Development by Japheth Omojuwa. Omojuwa is a blogger. He runs omojuwa.com and has close to 50 thousand followers on Twitter(a number not yet attained by any Nigerian who's not a musician) he tweets and blogs for a living and is paid 100,000 to post just one tweet for corporate organizations. His tweets and blogs reaches about 500,000 people(from replies and tweets). This has made him a force to be reckoned with in the social media world here in Nigeria. 

ALS meets every, 1st Friday of the month at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, 7p.m; Second Friday @ Silverbird Entertainment Centre Abuja 7pm, Third Fridays @ Salamander Cafe, Abuja; BookJam holds every Last Friday of the month at Silverbird Entertainment Centre Abuja 6pm; Abuja Poetry Slam (performance Poetry competition) holds in March, June, September, and the Grand Slam will be in December. Special Guest writers will normally feature at the First Friday readings @ the Hilton. Special workshops, retreats and exchanges are part of our programmes. ALS can help you with manuscript editing ,organize a book presentation, marketing or special literary nights/events.

For more information: Chinelo: 08067958680; Ken: 0803-155-2555; or Victor: 0803-311-7246.

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